Wards M to O
We want to ensure you receive the best possible care. That includes having the right levels of nursing and midwifery staff at all times during your stay.
All wards provide single-sex accommodation, bathroom and toilet facilities. Flowers are not allowed on any wards due to infection control issues. Please do not bring in valuable items, such as jewellery or large sums of money as the Trust cannot accept liability for the loss of items. Please read our section on security for more advice on how to keep your valuables safe.
Wi-Fi is available free of charge to all patients and visitors
Marjory Warren Ward
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 3301
Visiting Times: 2 to 8pm
Maximum Visitors: 2
Location: Seventh floor, Ruskin Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
Marjory Warren Ward has 30 beds and is part of the Health and Ageing Unit. The ward assesses, treats and rehabilitates frail older people, particularly those with dementia and delirium.
It is a specially designed ‘sensory’ ward which provides a friendlier and more relaxing environment for patients.
The ward is named after Dr Marjory Warren (1897-1960), a surgeon who pioneered specialist healthcare for elderly patients.
Mary Ray Ward
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 4850
Visiting Times: 2 to 8pm
Maximum Visitors: 3
Location: First floor, Cheyne Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
Mary Ray Ward has 30 beds and cares for patients who have general medical and respiratory conditions.
It is named after Mary Elizabeth Ray (1864-1933), who in 1906 became the first Sister Matron of the hospital on its new site at Denmark Hill. She was a Patron of King’s Nurses’ League from its foundation in 1924.
Matthew Whiting Discharge Unit
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 4179
Location: First floor, Cheyne Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
Matthew Whiting Discharge Unit is as an area for medically fit patients to move to from the ward areas to await medications, transport or other arrangements to facilitate their discharge from hospital.
It is named after Matthew Whiting, a 19th century merchant who guaranteed the hospital’s overdraft and left a bequest to King’s in his will.
Murray Falconer Ward
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 4445
Visiting Times: 2 to 8pm
Maximum Visitors: 3
Location: Second floor, Ruskin Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
Murray Falconer Ward cares for patients who are having elective (planned) brain or spine neurosurgery. The ward is attached to the Neuroscience Admission Lounge, where neurosurgery patients are assessed before surgery.
The ward also cares for patients having planned orthopaedic surgery.
The ward has 31 beds divided into a series of bays and 11 side rooms. It is named after Murray Falconer (1910-1977), a distinguished neurosurgeon who set up the neurosurgical unit at the Maudsley Hospital in 1949. He is renowned for his pioneering work in using surgery to treat drug-resistant epilepsy.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 3553
Visiting Times: Parents any time; others 9am to 8pm
Maximum Visitors: 2 (including child’s parent)
Location: Fourth floor, Golden Jubilee Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provides intensive, high dependency and special care for newborn babies. It has 34 cots and treats about 650 newborns a year.
Nightingale Birth Centre
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 3222
Visiting Times: Partners can visit at any time
Maximum Visitors: Birth partner plus one
Location: Fourth floor, Golden Jubilee Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
The Nightingale Birth Centre (labour ward) is on the fourth floor of the Golden Jubilee Wing. Facilities include ten rooms for mums in labour; a four-bed area for women who need extra monitoring before birth; a two-bed high dependency unit (HDU); and a five-bed recovery area. There are two operating theatres for planned and emergency surgery.
We also have two midwife-led birthing rooms – Beach and Woodland – which provide a home-from-home feel for women having a straightforward birth. They each have a plumbed in pool, their own shower and toilet, and a drop-down double bed.
Each of our ten labour rooms has a bed, reclining chair, birthing ball and mat, bean bag, stereo and their own bathroom. There are two movable inflatable pools for waterbirths.
Our Maternal Assessment Unit (MAU), based in the Fetal Medicine Research Institute next to Denmark Hill train station, cares for women who need closer monitoring during pregnancy but do not need to be admitted to hospital.
The ward is named after the Nightingale Trustee Fund, which funded the first ward at King’s to train midwives in 1861.
Oliver Ward
Tel: +44 (0)20 3299 4842
Visiting Times: 2 to 8pm
Maximum Visitors: 2
Location: Ground floor, Cheyne Wing, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS
Oliver Ward has 30 beds and specialises in treating general medical patients and patients with diabetes and endocrine (hormonal) conditions.
It is named after Percy Lane Oliver OBE (1878-1944), a local volunteer for the Red Cross who established the first voluntary blood transfusion service, a forerunner of the National Blood Service.